Re: How to fix (and find) many git-* --check errors?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2008, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7viqubcnop.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <489C40BC.8000008@sneakemail.com>

"Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:

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> We have > 37000 white space "errors" in HEAD, mostly trailing
> whitespace, and I'm looking for a
>
> $ git diff --check | git??? --whitespace=fix
>
> command.

Starting from a clean checkout, you could do something like this:

	$ git reset --hard
        $ rm .git/index
        $ git diff --binary -R HEAD >P.diff
        $ git apply --whitespace=fix --cached <P.diff
	$ git commit -m "Fixed all whitespace gotchas"

P.diff contains essentially everything, and you are recreating everything from that patch.